Doctor Who Video Commentary: Boom - RTD Thought That 'Boom' Would Be Cheap... He Was Wrong
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Doctor Who Video Commentary: Boom - RTD Thought That 'Boom' Would Be Cheap... He Was Wrong
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Russell can be such a tease 😂
He thought the same about Midnight lol
Yeah, the thing about a bottle episode is they're cheap if you're using a set, props and costumes that you already have. If you have to have that stuff made (and cast one-off characters, add VFX, etc), it's gonna start costing money like any other episode even if it seems simple on paper. Anything that can get complicated should be expected to get expensive. If you set the episode in the TARDIS console room, for example, the temptation would be to blow something up or to explore other rooms that haven't been built yet. You have to take those kinds of options off the table if the goal is to keep the cost down.
TBH they could have just used a quarry instead of a fancy soundstage lol.
they talk about this in the Unleashed - it was about weather control. they were filming in the winter. If they'd filmed outside a huge chance of it being a disaster... and duly, the week they filmed most of it was a total washout in wales, so they wouldn't have been able to film at all if they'd been outside!
@@ajdon71exactly
Moffat's comments are correct I think. Sadly it's the AIM to go for "a cheap one" that comes across every time. I didn't like "Midnight" and that cats-in-the-car-smog episode (forgot the name) because they were also aiming to be "a cheap one".
I wouldn't say midnight was aiming to be cheap, but it was because they wanted to film 2 episodes at the same time.
@@DoccyWhoStuff True true. I've just always found "bottle episodes" gross (in any TV show) since I was a little kid and didn't have the ability to describe what I was seeing. There's a massive lack of realism by not pointing the camera out a window, or giving the viewer / director the absolute choice of a drone-style shot as often as they want. The real world is huge, expansive and complex. It's why I enjoy games like Flight Simulator so much (and I never bother with the "game" element anyway, and almost never use cockpit view).
Even RTD (RTD1) talked about how dangerous it was to "write for TV" and limit yourself to a budget, rather than writing a script first-up and THEN flicking it to a director to worry about … and if you need to make sacrifices, it's really fine, but do it LATER, not at the start. "Midnight" totally puts on the straitjacket at the writer's table. Whereas the lovely "Human Nature" had none of those handbrakes, both visible and subconscious, because it was written as a novel. You know, there's still a lot more we could dip into, from the Virgin NA and BBC NA era. None of it is necessarily out of date, and they make excellent two-parters. Such scope. The scope!!
Flipside is how much I enjoyed Chibnall's penchant for filming outside. This world, let alone alien worlds, are incomprehensibly vast. Just going to UA-cam channels where they challenge themselves to walk in a straight line for a day - it just shows how untapped our experiences are of the surroundings, even those immediately next to us and less than driving distance.
@@whophd yeah, i do get that, and Chibnall's era had beautiful exterior shots
Oh no... The way RTD talks about Varada makes me think that it's beyond his comprehension that a companion could be from somewhere else than modern-day Earth.
It's interesting because that's how the format/formula of Dr Who works: Alien Lead & Modern Human Companion for Audience Surrogate.
But that formula wasn't necessarily how the show was created, given that the first companion was also an Alien!
@@OneWingedRose but also, we already have a character fulfilling that function - Ruby. Varada's character could function differently (for example similarly to Jamie but in reverse, being amazed with how things worked in "the past" (our present))
@@OneWingedRose To be fair, Susan wasn't the only companion. Barbara and Ian were the token humans who were there to go "ooh" and "aah" while Susan was going "eek" and "AaaAAaAIIIIEEEEGH".
There's something to be said for multiple companions. I mean, Chibnall tried it, but they were all modern day humans from Northern England and it got a bit crowded in that sense, but Bill, Nardohl and Missy were a pretty interesting and experientially diverse ensemble. I certainly wouldn't mind if Ruby and the Doctor are joined by someone from the future or the past or not from Earth...or if K-9 came back in some form. As long as Ruby is still around, the contemporary human perspective doesn't have to be lost.
The story wasn't expensive, it was the questionable production choices that made int not cheap. There was no reason to spend that much on the army base set - no story would have been lost if it were a half-set up against a wall and/or a room, rather than an entire mini-village. That's already a significant cost cut.
Using a quarry could have been an option as well, but tbh, I'm not convinced that would've cut the overall price due to needing to then rent out lighting, grip equipment, generators, and dealing with the shifting daylight. But the army base seems like a no brainer.
So the army base was built outside in the production studios car park, where one complete side was just the side of the studios. And it was weather that was the deciding factor to build the set, plus it worked better with the atmospheric lighting
@@harryhughes6124 I'm aware, hence why it would have been impractical to do the quarry vs inside the studio. I'm saying there was no reason to build as much as they did for the army base.
@@Rocksteady72a yeh okay fair enough
It's not the army base. They used those giant screens for backgrounds like the ones in The Mandalorian. YES, for an episode based entirely in a crater.
that base set added so much life to the episode in my opinion. Made the world feel much more whole! I kinda love the extra effort